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CONFERENCE INFORMATION |
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About the Conference
With technical assistance from the US DHS S&T
Directorate, US DHS DNDO, and the US DOE NNSA;
and the ninth annual IEEE Conference on
Technologies for Homeland Security HST’09, will focus on novel and
innovative technologies, which address the most pressing national
security problems.
The conference will
bring together innovators from leading universities, research
laboratories, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, small businesses,
system integrators and the end user community and provide a forum to
discuss ideas, concepts and experimental results.
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Featured Speakers:
► Director, Office
of Science & Technology Policy, Science Advisor to the President
(Invited) ► Brad Buswell,
Deputy Under Secretary, DHS S&T
► Richard Kikla,
Director of Transition, DHS S&T
► Thomas Cellucci,
Chief Commercialization Officer, DHS S&T
► William Daitch,
Assistant Director, DNDO, National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center
► Randall Weidman,
Director, Office of Nuclear Counterterrorism, DOE NNSA
► Ruth Doherty, Ph.D., Program Executive Officer, C-IED, DHS
S&T |
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CONFERENCE TRACKS |
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Border and Maritime Security
► Wide Area
Persistent Surveillance
► Non-intrusive Contraband and WMD Detection
► Data
Fusion, Threat Characterization, Information Collection and
Decision Support Technology
► Tunnel
Detection and Foliage Penetration
► People
Screening
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Counter IED Technology
► Transportation Security
► Standoff/Non-invasive Explosive Detection Technology
► Mitigation
Technology (Including Protection and Neutralization)
► Enhanced
Attribution and Forensic Technology
► Risk and
Threat Analysis Methodology |
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Physical Infrastructure Protection (including
monitoring/surveillance protection access control and
credentialing ►
Analysis and Prevention of Cascading Consequences across
Infrastructure Sectors ►
Cyber-Infrastructure Protection (Submitted papers must clearly
identify the critical infrastructure supported by this research.
Papers that use data from those sectors, or that include trial
deployments into those sectors will be favored over general
research papers.)
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Threat/Risk/Consequence Assessment |
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Weapons of Mass Destruction (primarily
nuclear and biological), Detection, Diagnostic and Forensic
Technologies
► Standoff/Portable Detection, Diagnostic and Forensic
Technologies ► Cargo
Screening and Security (air, ship, rail, truck)
► Advanced IT
Support (including fusion, anomaly detection, target
recognition, decision support, integrated reporting)
► Risk/Consequence Analysis |
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Disaster Response
► Incident
Management Systems (including information fusion, decision
support and resource management
► Interoperability and Field-deployable Emergency Communications
► Situational
awareness (including personnel, resources and physical
situation) ►
Modeling, Simulation and Training Tool |
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AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS AND
GUIDELINES |
IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract Deadline: (Extended) |
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January 23, 2009 |
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Speaker Notification: (New Date) |
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February 6, 2009 |
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Final Paper Deadline: (New Date) |
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April 30, 2009 |
Deadline for author conference registration is March 15, 2009.
At least one author/presenter for each paper must be
registered for the conference by March 15, 2009 for their paper
to be included in the conference proceedings. |
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Call for Papers
The Conference is
seeking technical papers in the following matrix of tracks and technical
sessions (see on left side). Technical papers submitted should focus on near
and next generation technologies capable of deployment within 5 years.
The technical paper focus should be on applied research, addressing hard
problems where breakthroughs are needed.
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Student Papers The 2009 IEEE-
International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security is proud
to announce the student paper competition for both oral and poster
presentations. The following prizes will be awarded, 1st - prize $250;
2nd prize - $150; 3rd prize - $100.
Abstracts submitted to the conference should be marked:
student paper and be presented by a student. The awards will be
announced at the closing session of the Conference. The panel of
judges, comprising Conference staff, will assess the performance of
student-presenters. |
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Abstract Submission Procedure
Two page, MS
Word with maximum 500 words + author(s) title, name, address,
phone, fax, email and organization affiliation must be
submitted. On a separate page, principal presenting author
biography {max 100 words}. Please specify your preferred track
and session (see matrix above) Submissions will be acknowledged
via email. (Please note: Accepted papers will require at
least one author to register and pay the conference fee.)
Email to:
abstractsubmit@ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org
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Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors
A limited number of
sponsorships and exhibit packages are available. To learn more, visit
our Sponsor /
Exhibit Information page or contact Fausto Molinet at Matrix
Internationale 603- 894-4139, or
sponsorship@ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org.
For more information
on the conference email:
information@ieeehomelandsecurityconference.org. |
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Publishing Information
All papers
and posters will be published on the conference CD-ROM and
distributed to conference attendees. Selected full technical
papers that meet the publishing requirements will be published
in IEEE Xplore as part of the IEEE Conference Publication
Program. |
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Guidelines for Publication of Your 8-Page Technical Paper for
Inclusion in the IEEE Conference Publication Program
All authors
must submit the following:
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An electronic version of your final
8-page paper in IEEE eXplore ® -compatible PDF format
must be submitted via an email attachment to
kathleen@ballos.com no later than April 30, 2009
Please note: All
pdf files are required to be IEEE eXplore compliant.
HST 2009 has registered for use of
the tool IEEE PDF eXpress ™. IEEE PDF eXpress
is a free service to IEEE conferences, allowing authors to
make IEEE Xplore -compatible PDFs (by using the conversion
function) or to check PDFs that authors have made themselves
for IEEE Xplore compatibility (by using the PDF Check
function).
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Steps for submission once the IEEE PDF eXpress™ tool is
open for your use: |
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Create your manuscript(s) |
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Proofread
and check layout of manuscript (it is highly recommended
that you do this BEFORE going to IEEE PDF eXpress). |
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Go to
http://www.pdf-express.org/ and Create IEEE PDF eXpress
account by clicking on "NEW USERS - click here". The
conference ID is hst09x. You will need this conference ID
to create an account. |
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Upload
source file(s) for Conversion; and/or PDF(s) for Checking. |
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Use IEEE PDF eXpress to attain IEEE
Xplore-compatible PDF(s). The site contains extensive
instructions, resources, helpful hints, and access to
technical support. |
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Once you
have a compliant PDF file, submit the final IEEE
Explore-compatible PDF(s) to
kathleen@ballos.com. The deadline for submitting
this final PDF file is April 30, 2009. |
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A completed and
signed
IEEE
copyright form sent by:
FAX to:
Ballos Associates
US
Fax # 978-597-6419
Electronic version of the
copyright form can be sent to
kathleen@ballos.com
Important: Please make sure you fill in the "Title
of the Work", which will be the name of your paper
(including your assigned paper identification number), as
well as the author(s) information, and sign the copyright
form.
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Paper Length: |
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The paper should consist of eight
pages, including your 150-word abstract and all figures and
images. |
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Paper Text: |
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The paper will be printed in the proceedings CD
exactly as submitted. Authors must therefore follow the
formatting instructions which can be downloaded here.
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Naming Convention: The name of the file
containing the paper should be your paper identification number only.
Example: 126.pdf
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Downloaded Style Files: Presenters can also download the transactions style file and
the bibliography style file to use with LaTeX or Microsoft
Word. These style files may be used to prepare
conference papers by using the [conference] option.
The address is:
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html |
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Questions regarding these instructions
should be emailed to
kathleen@ballos.com. |
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